Katherine Fairfield and her missionary husband were traveling to Oregon Country to bring God to the 'savages.' Then the young minister was struck down by fever, leaving Katherine alone with a deathbed promise to carry out her husband's dream. Why now did cruel Providence see fit to test her with an earthly love?
Mixed-blood trapper Jed West rued the day he'd rescued Katherine Fairfield. She was a missionary, not a woman, he kept telling himself. But even while he scorned her piety, the passion that burned between them threatened to possess his very soul.